AEW President Tony Khan doesn't shy away from making his feelings known about WWE, and he's once again weighed in on the company's decision to release talent. Yearly releases (firings, basically) are nothing new for WWE, but the fact they've let more than 80 Superstars go this year...well, it's both unprecedented and something that has angered many wrestling fans.
"Anybody who signs a contract [in WWE] these days, is not signing a real contract, in my opinion," Khan says. "It’s a temporary arrangement. People who come wrestle with me, a lot of these people are frankly lifers and they know that. There are some people who are here and work really hard. There are some people who come in and work more than really hard."
"There is a lot more security with a contract here," he added in regards to how AEW handles things differently to WWE. "I can’t say I’m going to extend every contract or bring every person back, but I also — through the last couple of years — have not been doing mass layoffs."
"I don’t brag about being the most profitable company of all time...it’s not anything to be proud of when a company lets all those people go and you’re putting press releases out like that, frequently, I don’t think it’s a good thing." Days before WWE fired that latest lot of wrestlers, they were bragging about record profits, and Khan is right that it's not a good look for WWE.
Check out the full interview below:
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